White House Fanning Racial Hate, Part ll

Sometimes ridicule does a better job of destruction than a frontal attack can hope to do.  I found that out today as Charles Cooke from the National Review mercilessly lampoons the White House’s idiotic response to a white police officer’s preventing the stabbing death of a black teenage girl by shooting her assailant (which was the only practical alternative he had).

Cooke’s piece is titled, “In Defense of Teenage Knife Fighting,” with the subtitle, “Since when do we need the cops to intervene in the recreational stabbings of our youth?”

Here’s a taste:

Just when I thought that America couldn’t possibly get any softer, people start suggesting that there’s a role for the police in preventing knife murders. The snowflake generation strikes once again.

Is there any tradition that the radicals won’t ruin? As the brilliant Bree Newsome pointed out on Twitter, “Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons.” And now people are calling the cops on them? I ask: Is this a self-governing country or not? When Newsome says, “We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon,” she may be expressing a view that is unfashionable these days. But she’s right.

Disappointingly, my colleague Phil Klein has felt compelled to join the critics. In a post published yesterday, Phil asked in a sarcastic tone whether the police should “somehow treat teenage knife fights as they would harmless roughhousing and simply ignore it.” My answer to this is: Yes, that’s exactly what they should do — yes, even if they are explicitly called to the scene. I don’t know where Phil grew up, but where I spent my childhood, Fridays were idyllic: We’d play some football, try a little Super Mario Bros, have a quick knife fight, and then fire up some frozen pizza before bed. And now law enforcement is getting involved? This is political correctness gone mad.

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That the Biden administration would smear as Jim Crow-style racist violence the successful intervention of a white policeman to save the well-being (and probably the life) of a black teenager, and to launch that smear on the basis of exactly zero evidence that race  —  as opposed to the normal human impulse to save a child being attacked  —  had anything to do with the officer’s regrettable, but also plainly commendable, action, is appalling.  Appalling, but revealing.

Why would anyone want to be a police officer when you’ll be attacked by the the White House as being a Klansman for saving lives  —  the highest calling of your job?

Many people, including numerous friends of mine, couldn’t stand Donald Trump for his not infrequently oafish behavior.  In truth, they had a point.  But Trump’s White House never undertook a smear on policing, and white policing in particular, like this.  Joe Biden’s just did.

UPDATE:  John Hinderaker from PowerLine adds:

We all know where this is going. The would-be murderer Ma’Khia Bryant will be lionized with fulsome tributes. Her relatives will become multi-millionaires. The intended victim may side with her would-be murderer; there is plenty of money to go around.

Already some liberals on Twitter have said that knife fights among teenage black girls are perfectly normal, even when only one of the combatants has a knife, and law enforcement should stay out of them. The endless corruption of race hustling will continue, and as always, poor blacks will be the ones who suffer the most as police forces across the country pull back lest they be accused of “racism” if they try to do their jobs.